"...volcanic magma has been studied in depth ... creating a new type of geothermal power plant that could supply the world with large amounts of clean electricity at almost zero cost."

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/geothermal-energy-gate-to-hell/3866/

#renewableenergy #climatechange #geothermal

Arctic sea ice volume halves in 20 years

#climatechange

https://volewica.blogspot.com/2019/08/arctic-sea-ice-volume-halves-in-20-years.html

HA, that's fantastic.

Utah geothermal plant gets big boost from California utility

https://www.ksl.com/article/51052070/utah-geothermal-plant-gets-big-boost-from-california-utility

#renewableenergy #climatechange #geothermal

Potential for geothermal energy in US

#renewableenergy #climatechange

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4703057-geothermal-energy-potential-beneath-western-eastern-us-map/

Machine Learning Without a Processor

https://www.hackster.io/news/an-analog-network-of-resistors-promises-machine-learning-without-a-processor-researchers-say-d9cb0655b7a0

#machinelearning #ai #analogcomputing

When are the insurance and finance companies going to figure this out...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/14/luxury-homes-on-these-beaches-are-losing-value-fast-as-effects-of-climate-change-hit-hard.html

#climatechange

Zero-emission cement?

https://www.popsci.com/technology/green-cement-recycling/

#environment #climatechange #solarpunk

Mining bitcoin with solar power

https://ungovernablemisfits.com/explorations-into-solar-mining/

#solarpower #bitcoin #renewableenergy

"Mexico City could run out of water in a month unless it rains"

https://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-city-water-crisis-day-zero-drought-rain-2024-5

#climatechange

"Huxley used hallucinogenic drug experiences as the basis for an articulate philosophical exploration."

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-aldous-huxley-opened-the-doors-of-perception/

#aldoushuxely #entheogens

#Mobile #AI. You knew this was coming.

https://www.wired.com/story/pocket-sized-ai-models-unlock-new-era-of-computing/

#Slop. The #llm equivalent of spam.

#ai

https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/

"World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target."

#climatechange

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

Lotta questions about this. How much waste water is there and how toxic? Are any greenhouse gases releases?

#climatechange #renewableenergy

https://grist.org/energy/in-texas-ex-oil-and-gas-workers-champion-geothermal-energy-as-a-replacement-for-fossil-fueled-power-plants/

https://void.cat/d/S6NxDX8h7M3hVtW37U7TaZ.webp

Eddie Heywood – Eddie Heywood

#jazz #vinyl #NowPlaying

https://song.link/i/1443457476

Do champion trees have the best shot at sequestering carbon from the air?

#climatechange

https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/465444-fighting-climate-change-by-cloning-the-worlds-oldest-trees/

The Poetry Camera uses AI to make poems out of photograph...

#poetry #llm #ai

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/24/the-poetry-camera-uses-ai-to-make-poems-out-of-photographs-and-its-actually-pretty-cool.html

Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models?

#chatgpt #ai

https://www.kadoa.com/blog/llama3-killed-proprietary-models

Dubai Flash Floods

#climatechange

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/dubai-floods-expose-weaknesses-to-a-rapidly-changing-climate-5482872

Mythic uses analog technology for its mobile #AI chips rather than digital.

https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/movies/ai-analog-chip-startup-mythic-130000933.html

#analog #ai

https://void.cat/d/4Dkhn8QuNTkiv97uXN2dSp.webp

"How do you shrink a cloud’s worth of material into tiny, low power devices?”

#analog #ai

https://embeddedcomputing.com/technology/iot/edge-computing/ambiq-announces-new-apollo5-soc-for-efficient-ai

"Microsoft’s new safety system can catch hallucinations in its customers’ AI apps"

Not sure I buy that you can generically catch hallucination

#ai #chatgpt #LLMs

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24114664/microsoft-safety-ai-prompt-injections-hallucinations-azure

#climatechange is shifting the zones where plants grow.

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-climate-shifting-zones-garden.html

AI and other emerging technologies may trigger a revival in analog computing

https://www.kyndryl.com/au/en/perspectives/articles/2024/03/analog-computing-renaissance

https://void.cat/d/5V5jaLgBkoJCq5inx5YwbP.webp

It was once normal for economists to imagine a world with less work. What happened?

#postscarcity #solarpunk

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/24065976/economists-post-scarcity-abundance-industrial-revolution-socialism-capitalism